Dear Mr. W, One main character in The Year of Miss Agnes is Miss Agnes. Some character traits for her are that she is a good teacher. Sh...

The original plan was to start my review of Great Joy by Kate DiCamillo with two Christmas lists, but I quickly realized that both lists...

Dear Mr. W, I just finished The Year of Miss Agnes . This is the plot . In the introduction I learned that Fred was the main character. ...

Dear Mr. W, I am still reading Tadpole . The main character is Carol. She is 10, the youngest, and says she is “nobody at all.” She is ...

Dear Mr. W, Today in Flush , Noah was unfortunately trapped inside the main setting of the chapter: the women’s bathroom on the Coral ...

Dear Mr. W, I am reading Tadpole by Ruth White . The story takes place in the hills of Kentucky in 1955. The book tells me that it is 19...

My original review of I Want My Hat Back says, “Sometimes - no, oftentimes - the simplest books end up being the best books.” I then went...

Dear Mr. W, I just finished Who Could That Be at This Hour? by Lemony Snicket . (He’s the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events , wh...

Dear Mr. W, I just finished reading Son by Lois Lowry and wanted to tell you about the setting. There are three main places where Son ...

Dear Mr. W, Today while reading Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things  by Lenore Look , Alvin used swearing words ...

When I started teaching I knew two things for certain. First, I wanted to read aloud every day. Second, I wanted my students to read every...

Life is full of transitions. Some are positive, others negative. Some transitions occur in our personal lives while others happen to us pr...

If Maya Makes a Mess was nonfiction, if author Rutu Modan had created an illustrated account of a real Maya’s actual dinner manners, tha...

My latest column is mostly not mine. After my brief introduction is an actual thank you letter from my wife's cousin, Mark, to their g...

Simply put, Fake Mustache by Tom Angleberger is a book that grown-ups should be recommending to young readers. As a public service, I offer...

While searching for her favorite food, opihi (oh-PEE-hay, a delicious sea snail), in a seaside pool, a young woman named Kalei has a run-i...

“Chickie, let’s make masks!” begins Chick in this latest offering from Toon Books . But not just any masks, as young readers quickly find ...

Since this article was originally published in the local newspaper a week ago, people have told me about Erik Estrada, Shaun Cassidy and ...

There are approximately 4 million children born each year in the United States. That means there are around 8 million two- and three-year...

I had been hearing about The One and Only Ivan  for a while and planned to buy the book sooner than later, when one Monday morning it simp...

Now that the weather is swinging towards summer, we're not in the basement quite as much as in winter. But the games are ongoing, and...

Much has been said and written about Wonder by R. J. Palacio during its short existence on bookstore and library shelves. Even before it...

All delicious, but none miraculous. This column appeared yesterday in the local newspaper . If anyone is interested, the recipe is avail...